Inheriting a new team – how to decide which team members to keep?
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Inheriting a new team – how to decide which team members to keep?

When you get made up to partner, either through a promotion or a lateral move, it is not uncommon to inherit a new team, or a dysfunctional group of people who happen – more because of a HR structure chart – to belong to the same team. Your long term success as partner is driven…

How to keep your team happy when they are stressed out with tough deadlines
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How to keep your team happy when they are stressed out with tough deadlines

No-one said that being in the professions would be easy! However, when you get to manager in a practice you get given the equivalent of a ‘hospital pass’. On the one hand you need to keep your clients and partner happy. Then you also need to keep your team happy and motivated, often by asking…

Team away days… an 8 point action plan to get them right
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Team away days… an 8 point action plan to get them right

Have you been asked to help run a team away day or session? Here’s your 8 point action list for better team away days Objectives: Be absolutely clear what the objectives are, in terms of a measurable business outcome (Why do they need bringing together? What/ how will the firm or the team gain? How…

Team away days… Where do they go wrong? Part 2
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Team away days… Where do they go wrong? Part 2

When I used to be employed as an in-house learning and development manager, I was always being asked by my business units whether I would run a team away day for them. Very often it’s the up-and-coming partner or junior partner who is given the job of organising the department away day. I’m all for a…

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Team away days… Are they just a waste of time and money? Part 1

When I used to be employed as an in-house learning and development manager, I was always being asked by my business units whether I would run a team away day for them. Very often it’s the up-and-coming partner or junior partner who is given the job of organising the department away day. I’m all for a…

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